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Pineapple and Strawberry Jam

A jam made from pineapple and strawberries with equal amounts of sugar, cooked until thick.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,841 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pineapple and Strawberry Jam

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pineapple

  1. Peel the pineapple with a silver knife, remove the eyes, and shred it with a silver fork.

  2. Weigh the pineapple and add an equal weight of sugar.

  3. Let it stand overnight or for at least a few hours.

Prepare the strawberries

  1. Weigh the strawberries, wash and hull them, then add an equal weight of sugar.

  2. Let them stand aside.

  3. Bring the strawberries and sugar slowly to a boil.

  4. Remove the strawberries from the syrup with a large fork and set them on a platter in the sunshine.

Cook and set

  1. Combine the pineapple and its syrup with the strawberry syrup and cook until the pineapple is tender and the syrup is thick.

  2. Test a little syrup on a saucer.

  3. Return the strawberries to the pineapple and syrup, bring to a boil while stirring continually.

  4. Pour the mixture into jelly glasses.

  5. Once cold, cover with paraffin.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides the bulk of the fruit and tender texture once cooked down in sugar.
Strawberries
Adds fruit flavour and colour, and softens as the syrup thickens.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit, draws out its juices into syrup, and helps the jam set.

The step that matters

Testing the syrup on a saucer. Sugar and fruit only gel when enough water has evaporated and the sugar concentration is high enough. A cold saucer test shows whether the syrup is thick enough to set, preventing a runny jam or an overcooked, stiff one.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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